This good-sized specimen displays various clusters of crystals of this rare silicate, with parallel growth and a characteristic salmon-pink color. It comes from the Nicolau collection (Barcelona) and was acquired in an old mineral shop in Girona. Serandite was named in 1931 by Antoine François Alfred Lacroix after J.M. Serand, lighthouse keeper of the Island of Roume, Los Islands, Guinea, who assisted in collecting the mineral and who, coincidentally, had a rosy pink complexion (sic).

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A very aethetic miniature specimen of sérandite, showing a good salmon color. Defined and with a nice size... From the classic MSH.

A classic specimen of Mt. St-Hilaire combines a group of good sized analcime crystals with trapezohedral faces, well defined and interpenetrating each other. With some sérandite crystals, well defined and showing an excellent bright orange color. It is accompanied by aegirine, green fibrous actinolite and crystals of manganoneptunite with a dark brown color, and probably accompanied by thorian britholite-(Ce) (not perfectly identified). An indispensable classic of mineralogy. We will send analysis to the buyer.